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  1. "The #discovery also calls into question previous assumptions that female burials found with grave goods must have necessarily been the wives of important men, he said.

    “This subverts the idea that #women or females in these societies couldn’t be powerful in their own right and special in their own right,” he added.

    Booth also underlined that the fact that the woman found in #UptonLovell was taller than average for the time — closer in height to the average #BronzeAge man, at around 5 foot 4 inches — meant it was plausible for previous research to conclude that she was male."

    cnn.com/2026/07/17/science/upt

  2. "The #discovery also calls into question previous assumptions that female burials found with grave goods must have necessarily been the wives of important men, he said.

    “This subverts the idea that #women or females in these societies couldn’t be powerful in their own right and special in their own right,” he added.

    Booth also underlined that the fact that the woman found in #UptonLovell was taller than average for the time — closer in height to the average #BronzeAge man, at around 5 foot 4 inches — meant it was plausible for previous research to conclude that she was male."

    cnn.com/2026/07/17/science/upt

  3. 3,400-year-old gold diadems from Cyprus reveal Bronze Age trade across the ancient Mediterranean

    Golden diadems and gold mouthpieces found in Bronze Age tombs on Cyprus offer a rare look at life in one of the ancient world’s busiest trading centers. A new study found the ornaments were likely made by local goldsmiths who blended styles from Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East into designs unique to Cyprus...

    More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/07/340

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  4. 3,400-year-old gold diadems from Cyprus reveal Bronze Age trade across the ancient Mediterranean

    Golden diadems and gold mouthpieces found in Bronze Age tombs on Cyprus offer a rare look at life in one of the ancient world’s busiest trading centers. A new study found the ornaments were likely made by local goldsmiths who blended styles from Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East into designs unique to Cyprus...

    More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/07/340

    Follow @archaeology

    #archaeology #bronzeage

  5. 3,400-year-old gold diadems from Cyprus reveal Bronze Age trade across the ancient Mediterranean

    Golden diadems and gold mouthpieces found in Bronze Age tombs on Cyprus offer a rare look at life in one of the ancient world’s busiest trading centers. A new study found the ornaments were likely made by local goldsmiths who blended styles from Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East into designs unique to Cyprus...

    More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/07/340

    Follow @archaeology

    #archaeology #bronzeage

  6. 3,400-year-old gold diadems from Cyprus reveal Bronze Age trade across the ancient Mediterranean

    Golden diadems and gold mouthpieces found in Bronze Age tombs on Cyprus offer a rare look at life in one of the ancient world’s busiest trading centers. A new study found the ornaments were likely made by local goldsmiths who blended styles from Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East into designs unique to Cyprus...

    More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/07/340

    Follow @archaeology

    #archaeology #bronzeage

  7. 3,400-year-old gold diadems from Cyprus reveal Bronze Age trade across the ancient Mediterranean

    Golden diadems and gold mouthpieces found in Bronze Age tombs on Cyprus offer a rare look at life in one of the ancient world’s busiest trading centers. A new study found the ornaments were likely made by local goldsmiths who blended styles from Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East into designs unique to Cyprus...

    More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/07/340

    Follow @archaeology

    #archaeology #bronzeage

  8. #WilshireMuseum #stonehenge #UptonLowellShaman #metalwork #BronzeAge #research #history #archaeology

    "15 July 2026: The Upton Lovell Shaman was a female Bronze Age metalworker! 200 years of assumptions have been overturned by new aDNA research featured in an exhibition at the Crick Institute in London."

    wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-ar

  9. #WilshireMuseum #stonehenge #UptonLowellShaman #metalwork #BronzeAge #research #history #archaeology

    "15 July 2026: The Upton Lovell Shaman was a female Bronze Age metalworker! 200 years of assumptions have been overturned by new aDNA research featured in an exhibition at the Crick Institute in London."

    wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-ar

  10. #WilshireMuseum #stonehenge #UptonLowellShaman #metalwork #BronzeAge #research #history #archaeology

    "15 July 2026: The Upton Lovell Shaman was a female Bronze Age metalworker! 200 years of assumptions have been overturned by new aDNA research featured in an exhibition at the Crick Institute in London."

    wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-ar

  11. #WilshireMuseum #stonehenge #UptonLowellShaman #metalwork #BronzeAge #research #history #archaeology

    "15 July 2026: The Upton Lovell Shaman was a female Bronze Age metalworker! 200 years of assumptions have been overturned by new aDNA research featured in an exhibition at the Crick Institute in London."

    wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-ar

  12. #WilshireMuseum #stonehenge #UptonLowellShaman #metalwork #BronzeAge #research #history #archaeology

    "15 July 2026: The Upton Lovell Shaman was a female Bronze Age metalworker! 200 years of assumptions have been overturned by new aDNA research featured in an exhibition at the Crick Institute in London."

    wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-ar

  13. One thing I have learned after watching a bunch of newer videos about the bronze age collapse, the Trojan war and the late bronze age in general is that it seems to have existed a trade embargo between Hatti and Mycenaean Greece for at least a generation around 1200 BCE. At least from reading Hittite letters scolding local kings for daring to break said embargo and trading with the Mycenaeans.

    #History #Histodons #Greece #Troy #BronzeAge #Hittite

  14. One thing I have learned after watching a bunch of newer videos about the bronze age collapse, the Trojan war and the late bronze age in general is that it seems to have existed a trade embargo between Hatti and Mycenaean Greece for at least a generation around 1200 BCE. At least from reading Hittite letters scolding local kings for daring to break said embargo and trading with the Mycenaeans.

    #History #Histodons #Greece #Troy #BronzeAge #Hittite

  15. One thing I have learned after watching a bunch of newer videos about the bronze age collapse, the Trojan war and the late bronze age in general is that it seems to have existed a trade embargo between Hatti and Mycenaean Greece for at least a generation around 1200 BCE. At least from reading Hittite letters scolding local kings for daring to break said embargo and trading with the Mycenaeans.

    #History #Histodons #Greece #Troy #BronzeAge #Hittite

  16. One thing I have learned after watching a bunch of newer videos about the bronze age collapse, the Trojan war and the late bronze age in general is that it seems to have existed a trade embargo between Hatti and Mycenaean Greece for at least a generation around 1200 BCE. At least from reading Hittite letters scolding local kings for daring to break said embargo and trading with the Mycenaeans.

    #History #Histodons #Greece #Troy #BronzeAge #Hittite

  17. One thing I have learned after watching a bunch of newer videos about the bronze age collapse, the Trojan war and the late bronze age in general is that it seems to have existed a trade embargo between Hatti and Mycenaean Greece for at least a generation around 1200 BCE. At least from reading Hittite letters scolding local kings for daring to break said embargo and trading with the Mycenaeans.

    #History #Histodons #Greece #Troy #BronzeAge #Hittite